... of the east. From the centre of this solitude, the summit of the porphyritical rock of Chapoltepec, the eye sweeps over a vast plain of carefully cultivated fields, which extend to the very feet of the colossal mountains covered with perpetual snow.... Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain - Էջ 30Alexander von Humboldt - 1814Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1846 - 604 էջ
...from the surrounding heights. The eye sweeps over a vast xtent of cultivated fields, to the very base of the colossal mountains covered with perpetual snow....city appears as if washed by the waters of the Lake f Tezcuco. which, surrounded by villages and hamlets, resembles the most beauiful of the Swiss lakes,... | |
| Albert Kimsey Owen - 1880 - 146 էջ
...vegetation surrounds this hill. Old cypress trunks (ios ahuahuetes) of more than 15 arid 1 6 metres in circumference, raise their naked heads above those...city appears as if washed by the waters of the lake Tezcuco, whose basin, surrounded by villages and hamlets, brings to mind the most beautiful lakes of... | |
| Fanny Dorothea Herbertson - 1901 - 308 էջ
...cathedral, or ascend the hill of Chapultepec. A beautiful vegetation surrounds this hill. Old cypress trunks raise their naked heads above those of the schinus, which resemble in appearance the weeping willows. From the summit of the porphyritic rock of Chapultepec the eye sweeps... | |
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